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Sap or pest?
Rosemary18
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My house plant, maybe a dracaena, has started to flower after 26 years - for the first time it is in relatively light conditions. It is now about 16 feet high. It had one stem with long (2ft) fairly narrow dark green leaves growing around and forming the stem until it reached the ceiling when it branched out and then grew additional stems from other areas. It retains its leaves. It has recently grown six flower buds which as the plants grows taller appear along new stems with lots of small cream with dark reddish brown stripes flower buds in sphere shapes along the stems.
The plant is now secreting a substance from these buds is this sap or the result of a parasite? I have a picture but don't know how to include it!
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What are the globules on the stem?
What is the plant?
Many thanks, Rosemary
Cor - What a giant of a plant!
I haven't seen a Dracaena in flower before and am therefore rather envious of you.
Apparently the flowers are highly fragrant.
A brief search shows that they will exude sap if they are stressed, so perhaps the strain of flowering is the cause. I don't think it is anything to worry about unduly.
Thank you everyone, here is a picture of the plant - I hope.
Some of the flowers opened yesterday and the scent is fantastic. Still not sure exactly what the plant is.
I'm pretty sure it's a Corn Palm, aka Corn Plant (Dracaena fragrans 'Massangeana').
Thank you Phillipa and Chris, the flowers certainly look right. The only thing is it does not shed its lower leaves. Some of the same ones have been there for 26 years!